Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 58. (Budapest 1966)

Tóth, T.: The period of transformation in the process of metisation. (A paleoanthropological [sic] sketch)

in the later phase of the Lomovatovo culture of the Upper Kama as well as in one of the early Udmurt series (Polom), an intensification of the Mongoloid effect, but this failed to bring about significant changes in the Europoid dominance of the anthropological composition (Table 5,10, Eig. 5). On the other hand, the Upper Kama Mongoloid effect mentioned above is unconnected with the character-complex deriving írom the population of the Ananino culture. Again, the decrease in the Mongoloid proportion, observable in the Kama Basin, is associated with the settling in the north of the North Caspian Sarmata tribes of an Europoid composition (SMIRNOV, 1957). It should also be taken into account that the population of the Ananino culture was not uniformly Mongoloid (TROFIMOVA, 1954). On the whole, it can be established that not so much the Europoid but the Mongoloid elements had been assimilated in the Kama Basin. This process lasted for approximately one thousand years, but did not result in the entire abolition of the Mongoloid component. Interpretation of results We have studied the osteomorphological process of transformation enacted in the metisation of ethnic groups, differing as to primordial taxonomic characteristics, on a material deriving from an area of approximately 2—Bmillion s cp km. We had been able to observe that the Mongoloid elements on the eastern and northern parts of this huge area became gradually dominant, to wit, the several ethnic groups, settling